Word: botheration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only after Parry finished did the track-wise crowd get a chance to settle down. The games expanded into the organized confusion of all indoor track meets. The pole vault had started, but no one would bother watching until the bar passed 14 feet. Tobacco smoke gathered over the tight oval of the banked-board track while sweat-suited runners in their warmups jogged endlessly toward nowhere. Hurdlers twisted into weird calisthenics all over the infield. Here and there some exhibitionist dropped into a handstand, presumably to loosen his legs. Hordes of officials in boiled shirts hardly had room...
Ranging Demands. Soon a steady stream of Gruenthergrams-paper slips bearing orders, queries or demands-is rocketing from his desk. In the office outside few staffers bother to sit down, on the theory that nobody can get off fast enough from a sitting start when a Gruenthergram comes sizzling out of the commanding general's office. The Gruenthergrams range as far and wide as the general's far-ranging mind. Samples: "Please investigate the scratching and meows on the roof." "It seems to me that about a year ago I sent to G-2 a study dealing with...
...that the gendarme could be court-martialed and the cameraman charged with bribery. The communique did not mention the cameraman's nationality, described him only as "a representative of a foreign film company." The result was a torrent of anti-American editorials in French newspapers that did not bother to check the truth of the charge...
Positive Pressures. In the past, scarcity has more often than not gone hand in hand with negative forces-the depressing weight of poverty or the destruction of war. The scarcities that bother the U.S. today are born of the positive forces: population and prosperity...
...picture-the sort of thundering knock that usually brings a lightning boost at the box office. On the screen, however, the picture provides much more than the cheap thrill it promises. The hero is a man who gets lost on the West Side of Chicago and does not bother to go looking for himself. The script, mild enough in comparison with Nelson Algren's cruel, powerful novel (TIME, Sept. 2, 1949) on which it is based, has nevertheless the crudeness of a thing scraped off some metropolitan sidewalk. But it has a human splendor, too-as the story...